Job Description
The position involves receiving, testing, and maintaining quality of wood pellets at a port facility, along with performing housekeeping, safety, and operational tasks in an industrial environment to support sustainable bioenergy production.
Key Responsibilities
- Receive and record pellets at the port, ensuring accurate billing and safety compliance
- Conduct quality testing on finished goods and maintain QA/QC records
- Operate mobile equipment and maintain cleanliness of work area
- Perform safety certifications and follow safety procedures
- Enter maintenance work requests and escalate issues as needed
Requirements
- Receive pellets into the port, record data to ensure accurate billing, and ensure safety of the scale area so that loads meet safety criteria.
- Keep scale and ramps clean and free of debris.
- Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with suppliers.
- Operate shuttle wagon as directed at the Port of Wilmington.
- Collect samples and test finished goods delivered by truck and/or rail, maintain QA/QC records, and follow Quality Standard Operating Procedures.
- Analyze equipment performance and make quality results.
- Keep the area generally neat and orderly.
- Operate mobile equipment such as Bobcat and Lull to move dust collection bags.
- Keep the area clean of accumulated dust.
- Follow all workplace and job safety procedures.
- Complete safety certification as required for the position.
- Communicate operational information as required.
- Enter maintenance work requests as applicable.
- Escalate issues promptly for proper resolution.
- Perform other duties as required and serve as a back-up resource as needed.
- Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required, understanding maritime requirements.
- High school diploma or able to complete GED requirements within six months of hire.
- Demonstrate mechanical aptitude.
- Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
- Willing and able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees.
- Willing and able to work in hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling for up to twelve hours a day.
- Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- Willing and able to lift and pull up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to perform essential job functions safely and successfully in accordance with ADA and other standards, including meeting productivity standards.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: Not specified
Work schedule: Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts
Work environment perks: Outdoor environment, hot and cold temperatures, noisy industrial environment, strict safety rules and regulations, safety equipment provided
Additional benefits: Safety certification, training in equipment operation, opportunity to work in a purpose-driven, sustainable energy company
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